Alenka Puhar

Alenka Puhar
Alenka Puhar in 2013
Alenka Puhar in 2013
Born (1945-02-04) 4 February 1945 (age 79)
Črnomelj, Slovenia, Yugoslavia
Occupationauthor, journalist, translator, historian
Notable worksThe Primal Text of Life

Alenka Puhar (born 4 February 1945) is a Slovenian journalist, author, translator, and historian. In 1982, she wrote a groundbreaking psychohistory-inspired book "The Primal Text of Life" (in Slovene: Prvotno besedilo življenja) about the 19th century social history of early childhood in Slovene Lands, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The book was in 2010 the subject of a television documentary that was in 2010 televised on the national RTV Slovenija.[1][2] Her grandfather was the photographer and inventor Janez Puhar, who invented a process for photography on glass.[1][3]

  1. ^ a b Kač, Maja (2010) A View On Infancy Without A Sugar Coating (in Slovene: "Nepocukran" pogled na otroštvo), MMC RTV Slovenija, 20 April.
  2. ^ Tomažič, Agata (2010) Izvrstna (časopisna) intervjuja, a documentary criticism, Pogledi, 5 May 2010, Ljubljana.
  3. ^ "Stara kranjska rodbina - Dnevnik". dnevnik.si.